Background

Ms. Patricia E. Mitchell, also known as Pat, served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media (formerly, The Museum of Television & Radio in New York and Los Angeles and the International Media Center) from March 2006 to June 2014. Ms. Mitchell served as the President of Productions for Cable News Network Inc. Ms. Mitchell served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from March 2000 to 2006, ... where Ms. Mitchell is credited with leading public broadcasting into the digital future with such initiatives as the conversion from analog to digital broadcasting, a new 24x7 cable preschool children' service and new literacy based children's series. Ms. Mitchell achieved success both in front of and behind the cameral as a reporter, news anchor, talk show host, White House correspondent and documentary producer. Since 1992, Ms. Mitchell served as an Executive In Charge of original productions for Turner Broadcasting System. Ms. Mitchell headed PBS since March 2000. Prior to PBS, Ms. Mitchell served as the President of CNN Productions and Time Inc., Television, a Division of Time Warner Inc., from 1992 to 2000. Ms. Mitchell helped to found VU Productions. She also served at all three of The Major Broadcast Networks. She serves as Vice Chairman of The Sundance Institute and The Advisory Council of The Kennedy School of Public Leadership at Harvard University. She has been Executive Vice Chair of The Paley Center for Media since June 2014.She has been an Independent Director of Sun Microsystems Inc., since September 12, 2005. She has been an Independent Director of AOL, Inc. and AOL, LLC since December 2009. She has been an Independent Director of Knight Ridder Inc., since 2002. She serves as a Trustee of The Mayo Clinic Foundation and has been a Public Trustee of Mayo Clinic (formerly known as Mayo Clinic Rochester) since 2002. She serves as a Public Trustee of Mayo Clinic Health System New Prague. She serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Participant Media, LLC. She has been a Director of Oracle America, Inc. and Historic AOL LLC since September 12, 2005. She serves as a Founding Board Member of President Mikhail Gorbachev's global environmental organization, and an Advisor to the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Harvard University. Ms. Mitchell serves as a Member of The Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Afghan Women's Council. She served as a Director of The Creative Coalition Inc. Ms. Mitchell served as a Director of Public Broadcasting Service. She served as a Director of Bank of America Corporation from 2001 to June 3, 2009 and Knight-Ridder, Inc. since 2002. She was a special contributor to NBC's Today and CBS's Sunday Morning. In the mid-eighties, she established an independent production company based at Paramount Studios that produced documentaries, specials and series for broadcast, cable and national syndication. Ms. Mitchell was host and Executive Producer of the first female-hosted national talk program, Woman to Woman. She also reported from the conflict zones of Israel, Palestine, Northern Ireland and El Salvador for a NBC series on "Women and War" and produced the first documentary series on the history of women in America, A Century of Women. Programs produced under her leadership received thirty-seven Emmy Awards, five Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. Ms. Mitchell has received numerous personal awards including Woman of the Year in Cable and Telecommunications; the CINE Golden Eagle for Lifetime Achievement; the Sandra Day O'Connor Award for Leadership; and the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award for contributions to the television industry. In addition, Ms. Mitchell was named one of the most influential female executives in the media by the Hollywood Reporter and was honored as one of the first fifty women in the Museum of Television and Radio's She Made It initiative in 2005. Ms. Mitchell has an Honorary Doctorate of Arts and Letters of Emerson College in Hollins University and MA from Converse College. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia in 1968 with a Master's Degree in English literature and B.A. in English/Drama from University of Georgia in 1965.

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